It is the second approach which was so abhorred by FDR (see his “Sweater story”),
but so passionately practiced by both Batas and their thousands of associates the world
over. It is for each company to decide whether to go the way of “the party and the
government,” or the way of private enterprise operating in a free market to serve the
public by fostering economic performance and social prosperity. Do they prefer a statecontrolled
macro-economy or a free-enterprise micro-economy to provide the ideas
and lead the way out of the crisis? Non tertium datur.